Monday, 31 August 2009

Evening lovely bloggers:) How's your weekend been, or your bank holiday weekend for some? It's been a funny one here! Everything was going well till Ian (hubby) rang yesterday afternoon and said he'd had "a little accident", then the details came.... that he's wrote the car off, he'd spun it and landed upside down. Well, I was in a right kerfuffle! Got to him and he was in the ambulance, police were there, firemen were on their way...the whole lot! He'd managed to get out without so much as a scratch! Thank goodness! He was soooo lucky! There weren't any other cars involved so all that was ok, so we've just got our insurance to sort out now which is going to leave us a bit broke me thinks as we have a huge excess on the insurance:( Oh well am sure it'll sort out one way or the other.

But, onto happier things:) Here'a gorjuss christmassy card! This gorjuss girlie is available fromFunkykits and is perfect for christmas makes me thinks:) All the paper I've used is from my delicious new MME Laundry Line 12 x 12 pad that I got from Elaine at Quixotic at a bargain price as they're on special offer right now for a few more days so get em quick!

The layout of this card is from Friday Sketchers, which I've rotated and am also entering it for the ABC challenge as their theme this week is C for circles, and Pile it On's challenge for this week is 'round' so I reckon my card fits in with that too-well at least the paper and sentiment does:) Thanks for popping by and any comments you might leave me, they really make my day, truly! Huggles xxx

Saturday, 29 August 2009

Evening everyone! Hows the bank holiday weekend going? Mine's going well and I've had a really fun evening making this Halloween doorhanger (click image for a close up)! The other day when I was having a bit of lunch I was reading a back issue of the Craft Stamper magazine from May when my friend Judy had done a fab Sugarnellie feature and one of the projects she'd made was a doorhanger and since I wanted to start my Halloween (Samhain to some of us) projects I thought it would be ideal!

For the papers I've used the fab MME The Spiders Web from Elaine at Quixotic here with some distress ink in dusty concord sponged lightly. The fab image is one of Mo's-I absolutely adore her artwork and was only $3! Bargain!

I'm going to enter my project at Truly Scrumptious which was anything but a card and Double Dutch who asked us to pick one of their previous challenges to create from so mine is challenge 16 called Do not Disturb. Also over at Allsorts this week they're banning rubber and want to see digis so this definetly fits!

Since we're on the subject of Halloween have you seen these new Halloween stamps from Sugarnellie designed by Mary Hall? How cute are they? I just love em! They'll be available very soon from Funkykits so keep checking regularly so you don't miss out! Night night all!

Friday, 28 August 2009

Afternoon everyone! Tis Friday so that means it's time to Stamp Something! This week we want to see your animal somethings! Nice fun one, right?! I'm still feeling pink so I've got another girly fun one to show ya and I've actually used a Penny Black stamp (first time ever!), I think this stamp is really cute though so I couldn't resist! We've got another fab sponser this week so do go check out the other dt work which is fantastic btw and have a go at the challenge and you could win a fabby prize!

For the layout I used the sketch at Papertake Weekly- yet another fab one! Over at the Penny Black challenge they wanted to see stitching on our cards and I've used a mix of real and faux (faux around the image) and Creative Inspirations also want us to use stitching! At the other Creative Inspiration but the wednesday one they want to us to make a friendship card and I think this would be a goodie to give to a friend!

So whats everyone upto this weekend? Tis bank holiday weekend in the UK, last one of the summer! Not sure what we're going to be doing yet but Ian is actually off on the Monday so perhaps we'll do something fun! Thanks for popping by today and for any comments you might leave-I love reading em! Huggles xxx

Thursday, 27 August 2009

Evening lovely crafty bloggers! Hows your day been? All's good this end, been to Lincoln today to do a bit of shopping, pay some bills and I had to pop into the art shop to buy a few more copics to top my collection up! Slowly, slowly I'm getting there-buying a few copics here and there will slowly add up-I love em! I do like my Promarkers but I really wish I'd bought copics in the first place, ah well!

I can't believe I haven't posted since Monday, tis terrible blogging behaviour! lol. Well I have done some cards, on Tuesday night I had a card to do for my wonderful friend Michelle for her hubby but from her little boy (does that make sense?!) which I gave to her on Wednesday. Because I was a bit last minute making it I forgot to take a piccy! What a wally! Then last night I made my dt card for tomorrow, and well that brings us to today.

Can you tell I'm feeling bright? I just had to have a go with this little beauty from Sugarnellie! Dena, very kindly stamped her up for me as she keep selling out, I just keep missing out on getting her! These manga kids from Sugarnellie have been super popular, and you can see why can't ya! If you haven't checked out the sugarnellie blog you need to to see all the beautiful new stamps coming soon-including christmas manga kids! These are sooooo adorable, can't wait till they're released!

For the layout of this card I've used the Midnight Madness sketch which is another fabby one-the guys over there are just fantastic and the prizes amazing so if you haven't played along yet do check it out! I'm also entering this at Lalaland who want to see stitching-real or faux. Well I'm gonna go catch up with Big Brother-I'll be back tomorrow afternoon with my Stamp Something dt card. Thanks so much for popping by and any comments you might leave-they make my day! Huggles xxx

Monday, 24 August 2009

Afternoon everyone! Hope your day is going well. Me and hubby are going to the cinema tonight so I'm looking forward to that-we're going to see Orphan. We don't go out much these days y'know! lol. Thanks for all the lovely comments about Leo and help with the engagement card-just got to make it now! The new challenge blog Anyone for Anya started yesterday-go looky-the theme for the first challenge is sugar and spice which means your favourite things though you could interpret it other ways too. I've followed the sketch at Splendid Stamping with the Greeting Farm and have used my new dressy anya-these are absolutely my favourite set-I love them! Over at Stamptacular Sunday they want to see us use dimension on our cards and I've layered the card up quite a bit. I chose to use turquoise and brown-a gorgeous colour combo but one I rarely use and it just so happens to be the theme at the Secret Crafter. I've also done a fair bit of machine stitching (good ole janome sew mini!) on my card so this works for Creative Inspirations.

Ooo just to give you a heads up the new Sugarnellie Homegrown stamps have been released today-get em quick before they sell out! Well am gonna start dinner so I'll see you all tomorrow with any luck! Thanks so much for stopping by. Huggles xxx

Saturday, 22 August 2009

Evening everyone! Hows your weekend going? Mine's been good so far, apart from yesterday when me and my friend Michelle took to the kids out for the day and things all got a bit dramatic! In the afternoon Leo suddenly out of nowhere started walking oddly on his right leg like then he wouldn't walk at all-not like him-he'd much rather run around than be carried! After a little bit when it still hadn't improved I took to him to A and E, they examined him and everything and his temp was up as well. So...the consultant decided we needed to go to a bigger hospital as he thought there might be fluid on his hip and a temperature is a symptom of it so off we went-was really worried by this point! When we got to the next hospital and after more examinations and more doctors it was decided it wasn't a hip problem, and actually he was ok-just a bit of a bug and by this point he was walking ok after being given medicine and off we went home! He's pretty much fine now, thank goodness and no walking problems so who knows what the leg thing was about! Its such a guessing game when they can't communicate enough to tell you what the matter is!

Anyways...I have a card to show ya! I got this cutie stamp about a month ago but was waiting for some lovely christmas papers and now I've got some newies decided it was time to ink her up! Also time to start cracking on with the chrismas/yule cards! There seems to be a few challenges this week who are encouraging us to do just that so this card works for Simon Says Challengewho want to see christmas creations, winter wonderland who want to see home featured in christmassy creations (there's sweet little houses on the paper I've used), Dutch Dare also want to see Christmas Creations as do Creative Card Crew. The layout of this card is courtesy of the fabulous Kellie's sketch challenge-you should defo pop over there as you could win 3 adorable motivet stamps!

Ooo almost forgot to ask you guys-I need to make an engagement card for my step brother and his now fiancee-any image ideas? Thanks so much for stopping by and any comments you might leave me-they make my day! Enjoy the rest of your evening! Huggles xxx

Friday, 21 August 2009

Afternoon everyone! It's Friday which means it's nearly the weekend-wohoo! But more importantly it means it's time for a new challenge at Stamp Something! This week we want to see your Birthday somethings-nice easy one:) I've gone all summery today with my card and used this Sugarnellie cutie called Daisy-she is just the sweetest isn't she?! Since I have gone all summery I'm entering this at The Pink Elephant and Cute Card Thursday's theme this week is Lazy Summer Days which works for this too. Over at Whimsy Challenges this week they'd like us to use ribbons and Papertake weekly who are celebrating their 100th challenge want us to pick our favourite so I've picked 4 seasons which was from 4th august. A new challenge blog Lala land crafts has just opened and their first challenge is flower power-so this works for that too:)

Tuesday, 18 August 2009

Good morning everyone! Today it's time for another Delicious Diva challenge and it's such a yummy colour combination! Don't forget you can combine challenges and you have 2 weeks to enter so there's no excuse! The colour challenge is barely banana, cameo coral, old olive, and pumpkin pie so there's quite a few ways in which to interpret them and they work so deliciously together:)

Thanks so much for stopping by and don't forget to pop over to see the other Delicious Diva projects-they're so yummy:) This is my last card for Delicious Divas and I've loved being a guest design team member-thank so much for having me Kellie and Kristy! You guys are fantastic!

Thanks for stopping by and any comments you might leave-they make my day! Have a delicious day;)

Monday, 17 August 2009

Hey everyone! I was in a pink mood today, which is quite rare, I hardly ever do pinky girly cards but I was really in the mood for it today! My good friend Vix sent me this beautiful Tilda that I had had on my wish list-it's come to a good home Vix! She sent me such a beautiful card as well, with a gorgeous matching envelope-thanks so much sweets! I started off following the sketch atA Spoonful of Sugar but have altered it a fair bit as I resized elements and added so I hope it's ok:) Also am entering it at Pollycraft Monday who want to see out favourite things (distressing),Just Magnolia which is a card for a friend,and Cupcake Craft Challenges which is something sweet (It's also their 1 year birthday so there's lets of fun stuff going on so go check it out!).

Oooo I gotta tell you what I won today! When I checked google reader this morning I went to read the greeting farm's new post and I won a stamp giveaway so I got to pick a set of my choice! Couldn't believe it-haven't won anything for ages it seems! Maybe mr random generator is my friend again-hehe. Sooo what do you reckon I picked? I just had to go for the new miss anya dressy set-how super duper gorgeous are they?! Proper chuffed:)

Thanks so much for popping by today and any comments you might leave-they make my day! Don't forget to pop back tomorrow-it's Delicious Diva day tomorrow! Huggles-sleep well:)

Sunday, 16 August 2009

Morning everyone! Hope everyone is having a good weekend. It's operation clearout here this weekend, we've been getting rid of loads of old stuff and since I'm scheduling this but writing it last night (does that makes sense? hehe) I'll be at a car boot sale trying to sell said stuff! The money will be going in the stamp fund jar:) Anyways....

Since it is Sunday, that means it's Pile it On day and it's a fab challenge again! This week is also my last design team project. The theme this week is called Oh Boy! I know most people struggle a bit with cards for the boys but I do find them quite fun to make, nice change and all. Plus...Sugar Nellie does some fantastic boys stamps so you'll never be stuck for the 'right' image:) I've used one of the new Mary Hall stamps that you can buy as a single or as part of the full collection and there's some fab ones in there. I don't go mad with the combining this week, and I think it's cos I actually had done quite a few earlier in the week I started to run out of challenges! But, I've used the sketch at Friday Sketchers, and of course PIO and ABC challenge which this week is A is for Anything.

Make sure you pop by the PIO challenge blog to check out the dt creations and there's a handy list of pretty much all the challenges in blogland to give you a helping hand:) Look forward to seeing your creations! Thanks so much for stopping by and any comments you might leave-they make my day!

Friday, 14 August 2009

"We're all going on a summer holiday...." Sorry couldn't help it-at least you didn't have to hear me really sing! Stamp Something has gone all summery this week and we want to see your summer vacation (holiday to us brits) somethings. Thought this miss anya was a perfect match for this weeks challenge! I've gone all very bright and stuff using my Basicgrey lemonade pad-but it's just soooo yummy isn't it?! The layout is courtesy of BasicGrey Challenges-they're back you know with a new look! As I've added a tag it also fits in with this weeks Creative Inspirations challenge and Crafty Cardmakers (they're a brand spanking new blog so do pop over and check it out) wanted to see blossoms this week. The sentiment I've added was quite fitting i thought since we're having a bit of a funny summer over in the uk this year! I've also added stitching with my little sewing machine so this fits in for The Greeting Farm.

As I've scheduled this post I am as we speak joining miss anya at the beach with the kids-no doubt I'll be in a a similar outfit to miss anya too (yeah right!). Please do pop over to SS and look at the other dt samples-they're gorgeous! Can't wait to see your summer vacation somethings. Don't forget if you enter you could win a fab prize too-all the more reason for playing! Thanks so much for stopping by! Huggles

Wednesday, 12 August 2009

Happy Wednesday everyone! Is this week flying by or what?! I've combined a few challenges again (isn't it addictive?!) and have made something different today-a wallet card and a little gift holder. For the card I've used the sketch at Midnight Madness (I won the midnight masterpiece award this week-was so chuffed!), I've used the colour combo of pink, brown and cream over at Double Dutch. It also qualifies for Whimsy Challenges which want to see animals and am going to enter it for ABC challenge which is Anything Goes, Allsorts which is vintage, and Paperplay Challenges which is all creatures great and small. The gift holder was made from the previous Double Dutch challenge, very simple to make but really cute me thinks:).

Have you checked out the sneak peeks on the Sugarnellie blog today? I can't wait for these new stamps to be released-they're soooo cute-my fave is the little girl with her hat and stripey tights! I shall be back in a bit with my candy winner!

Monday, 10 August 2009

To celebrate my recent design team position for Sugarnellie, I decided to celebrate with some Sweet blog candy! I don't think theres anything sweeter than Sugarnellie stamps so......I'm giving away 5 Sugarnellie stamps of YOUR choice. YOU pick them I pay for em:) Sound good? Thought so! To be in with a chance of winning here's what you have to do (I'll be checking!):-

1) Become a follower if you're not already.

2) Link back to my blog with the pic above or a blog post with a link back to my blog.

3) Leave me a comment telling me what's made you smile today:)

This candy is only open to those with blogs. I will ship worldwide. One entry per person.I will add extra goodies to the Sweetness for every 50 entries:)Ends August 10th, winner will be drawn August 11th.

Good luck!

ETA 27th July~~~~I've now got 50 entrants so an 8 x8 DCWV All Dressed Up Stack has now be added to the candy:) The more entries...the more I add:)

Sunday, 9 August 2009

This image makes me so happy when I see it! I just love the quirkiness of Diane Duda's stamps! The past two evenings I've just not been in the mood for creating though. I realised today this was probably due to mountain of stash on my craft table! I'm not a tidy worker by any means but because I do do alot of crafting and have a habit of not tidying up after it my desk can quickly become covered! So it was time to clear up! Now I have so much space!

I haven't played over at Sketch Saturday for a couple of weeks so thought I best remedy that! I've also combined a few other challenges:) At Whimsy Challenges they want to see your friendship cards (am just in the nick of time for entering this..again!), tuesday taggers (a newie to me) want to see flowers as do A Spoonful of Sugar, and Papertake weekly want to see creations with a theme of a season-I'm going for Summer!

We had a fab day at the Farm Park on friday, leo loved feeding the animals! We all went on one of those big trampolines as well-so funny! My candy will be closing soon! I've absolutely loved reading all your comments on what has made you smile-all of em made me smile! I also had a lovely email today from a fellow crafter (if you're reading this Michelle-you really made my day!) which made me smile even more! Hope everyone has had a fantastic weekend-here in the UK we've been super lucky with the weather!

Friday, 7 August 2009

Hi everyone! Hope everyone is had a fab week and looking forward to the weekend! I've scheduled this post so right now I'll be with Leo and my friend Michelle and her little boy at a farm park feeding goats or something!

So...its time for the new Stamp Something challenge and this week we'd like to see charmed somethings! I've used a sweet Sugarnellie image, by Elisabeth Bell called Penpal and used my dcwv latte stack. The layout is a slightly adapted sketch from Midnight Madness, which was another really fun one again and I'm going to enter it at Simon Says which want to see buttons and ribbon. One day I shall win that $25 prize, still its fun trying isnt it!

Tuesday, 4 August 2009

Evening everyone! How's your day been? It's been pretty good this end and have had a lovely time having my mil here, and she so enjoyed seeing Leo again. Seems we're back to the wet weather again though doesn't it?!

It's Sugar Bowl time again and this time it's a gorgeous sketch by Marlene with the please include option of doodling. Now I haven't included doodling but if you want to be eligible for the prize then you must include it. The prize this time is a pick and mix of Sugarnellie stamps-who wouldn't love that!

I forgot to tell you yesterday about my sewing machine, a bit ago I said my brother machine needed a service but I think it didn't really love me putting card through it so I decided to save mr brother for just material and get a ickle machine purely for cardmaking and such. So after seeing a few recommendations..I got a sweet little Janome mini off an ebay shop for about £30 which arrived yesterday-and I love it! It's a good little sturdy machine, good speed, easy to use so I would definetly recommend it. So..I've got some stiching on this card, really missed adding it when I was without a machine, I think it finishes things off lovely like:)

Craft Stamper mag is out soon, Friday I think, though if you subscribe you'll have it already and a fab one it is too-especially since my teamie Judy's work is on the front cover! She's done a fab feature on stitching...you must check it out! Well am off to catch up with Big Brother, see yas tomorrows:)

Monday, 3 August 2009

Wohoo! Today's the first ever Delicious Diva Challenge! The first challenge is a fabby sketch to follow and who doesn't love a good sketch?! Don't forget you can resize, rotate or alter the elements which is what I've done. I used Miss Bumblebee from Sugarnellie which is now available in single gorjussness! Now I don't like to play favourites with my stamps but I've got to say this little cutie is fast becoming my fave all time gorjuss girl!

Sunday, 2 August 2009

Evening everyone! Hope everyone has had a good weekend! It's all go here...my niece went back home yesterday after staying for a week and now my mother in law is here visiting! I'm sorry to have not been able to catch up with everyone yet...this week I'll be able to catch up and visit you all! Tonight I managed to finish a card I started on Friday evening using my new magnolia summer kit stamps...I love the fruits in these! I've also combined a few challenges (I am officially addicted to combining challenges!) which are Whimsy Stamps Challenge which was a fabby sketch(I hope I'm not too late...), Cute Card Thursday which is called Get Fruity, Three Clovers which is called tooty fruity and Just Magnolia which is distressing!

Stuff: Magnolia stamp coloured with copics, distress inks in broken china and shabby shutters, papers by magenta and hotp, prima flowers, buttons and raffia from stash, core'dinations card (blimey I get through this stuff), sentiment by magnolia

I think the sugarbabes are all coming home now after having a fantastic time it seems and I reckon they're coming home loaded with goodies too:) Ooo also if you've been waiting to get your hands on the new Manga kids from Sugarnellie they are now back in stock...hurry though they keep flying out! Night all...

Good morning everyone! Hope everyone is enjoying their weekend, the sun is shining here for a change! We've got a fab challenge for you over at Pile it On this week-just use at least 3 flowers-easy right?! Our sponder this week is Softpencil designs which have some real cutie images and all the dt got to play with em for our sample cards this week.

This was actually the first digi stamp I've ever used! If you've never gone digi it is really easy-and softpencils images are already set to the right size for printing and colouring but you can of course alter the size to any you fancy.

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